Bruce’s of Great Neck gives new reasons to get up for breakfast

Breakfast is an occasion for some, and for others, just that really early meal in the morning that will still be there maybe when you shake the covers off at 3 p.m. But if you sleep too late, you’ll miss Bruce’s of Great Neck, a West Boca Raton place open only for breakfast and lunch.

And you won’t get any bobka French toast. And you NEED the bobka French toast. Your waist does not need it. But your mouth does.

Founded in New York, where celebrity fans of its sinful bakery included Hilary Clinton, Kathie Lee Gifford, Hulk Hogan and others, Bruce’s relocated to west Boca, just south of Yamato Road on 441, and since then has become a local breakfast favorite. It’s always packed – you might want to bring a book while you wait in line on the weekends – but it’s worth it from the time you sit down to be greeted with a plate of little brownies and tiny muffins before you even order.

To repeat…BROWNIES = BASKET OF BREAD.

I’ve never had a bum item in the three or four times I’ve eaten at Bruce’s, but the new menu items, including three new salads (House Chicken Salad with delicious honey pecans and sweet Craisins, the Chunky Shrimp and the flaky lobster salad), ham and Swiss quiche, seasonally correct roasted turkey panini and the aforementioned bobka French toast, lift things up a level. That French toast, to me, is the clear winner. Bobka is a sweet cake or bread, and made sweeter and richer with egg and syrup, it’s elevated into something more decadent. It, and all the new offerings, are worth the trip and worth cutting your nap short.